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Left-leaning students are overwhelmingly awarded the Truman Scholarship, a federal scholarship granted to U.S. college juniors for demonstrated leadership potential and a commitment to public service, according to a survey by The College Fix.

On Tuesday, Concordia College refused to allow the formation of a student-led, NRA-affiliated group on the grounds that the school’s position is pro-gun control.

President Donald Trump made the end of Common Core and the return to local control of education the primary items of his campaign’s education agenda, but the woman leading his education department claims Common Core has not existed in the country’s schools since 2015.

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) has pulled out of Ann Coulter’s Thursday event at UC Berkeley, blaming the college for allowing left-wing extremists to terrorize conservatives on campus.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Monday during an interview on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom that “there really isn’t any Common Core anymore” in the country’s schools.

Colby College Professor Aaron Hanlon argues that taking platforms away from controversial speakers on college campuses is merely a “product of free expression,” in a recent column for the New Republic.

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is representing the Berkeley College Republicans over restrictions placed on an upcoming Ann Coulter event, argued that UC Berkeley’s policies on acceptable speech are “infinitely malleable,” in a press conference that took place on Monday.

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is representing the Berkeley College Republicans in their free speech case against the University of California, Berkeley over failing to allow Ann Coulter to speak on campus on equal terms, slammed the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for ignoring the case.”

An administrator at New York University compared sensitive liberal college students to Holocaust survivors in an op-ed for The New York Times this week.

Controversial feminist activist Linda Sarsour, who has praised the “courage” of rock-throwing Palestinians, is set to give the commencement address at CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy.

The ongoing saga of LGBT protests of an upcoming Chick-fil-A restaurant on campus at Duquesne University, a Catholic college in Pittsburgh, has taken on biblical dimensions as a test-case of safe spaces and microaggressions in American higher education.

Willie Brown, the first African-American mayor of San Francisco, has used his latest San Francisco Chronicle column to condemn liberal intolerance at the University of California, Berkeley towards conservative speakers as the reversal of that campus’s free speech legacy.

A report released by Israeli researchers says violent attacks on Jews dropped for a second straight year in 2016, while other forms of anti-Semitism are on the rise worldwide, particularly on U.S. campuses.

The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) has been working with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on “anti-Islamophobia” plans, including adding lessons on Islam in social studies classes and adding Muslim “safe spaces” to campuses.

Saturday during her Fox News Channel “Justice” opening statement, Judge Jeanine Pirro reacted to University of California at Berkeley disinviting author Ann Coulter from speaking on campus, saying the shutting down of free speech on college campuses is pushing the country

The University of California, Davis, is now offering students a vending machine on campus that sells the morning-after pill.

In a vote that bucks the liberal trend of eliminating school team names that reference American Indians, student leaders at San Diego State University voted to remain the San Diego Aztecs.

A southern California man intended to challenge the federal law that mandates public schools educate K-12 migrant students, and while local officials nixed his proposed initiative, it raised long-standing economic concerns in the illegal immigration education debate.

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is a member of the anti-fascist Facebook group, By Any Means Necessary, which orchestrated the riots that occurred ahead of a scheduled lecture by Milo Yiannopoulos.

A growing number of conservative commentators are calling on President Donald Trump to use the California National Guard to escort author Ann Coulter onto the University of California, Berkeley campus when she speaks next week.

The LGBT rights lobbying group known as the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is urging students from middle school to college to “take a vow of silence” Friday to draw attention to “anti-LGBTQ behavior.”

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos toured a rural Ohio public school district Thursday with American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten.

Administrators at UC Berkeley have reversed their decision on Thursday afternoon to cancel an upcoming lecture by Ann Coulter. However, Berkeley now wish to move the date of her appearance from April 27 to May 2, in a week when there are no classes at the college. Coulter has rejected the proposed change, and plans to speak on the original date as planned.

A poll released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) finds a solid majority of Californians support taxpayer-funded vouchers for private and religious schools.

More Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 live with their parents than with a spouse, according to a new study.

Bucknell University faculty dismissed a proposal to adopt an academic freedom of expression statement at a faculty meeting that took place on Tuesday.

After a delay of about a month, the tiny Israeli Duchifat 2 satellite was launched Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite, a project of the Israeli Space Agency in the Ministry of Science and the Herzliya Municipality, was launched on the Atlas 5 launcher to the International Space Station.

A Professor at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette claims that he “wakes up shaking” in the middle of the night over President Trump in a piece published in an established academic journal.

Jesuit priests and Georgetown University repented for their involvement in the slave trade with a special “Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope” on Tuesday at the school.

The campus of the historical free speech movement, UC Berkeley, has banned conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter, citing security threats.

Baylor University, still crawling out from underneath the alleged mishandling of high-profile sports-related campus sex scandals, announced Dr. Linda Livingstone as its new president Tuesday.

The University of California has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit involving former UC Berkeley law school dean Sujit Choudhry and assistant Tyann Sorrell for a staggering $1.7 million, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Texans deserve a simpler school finance system that best meets the needs of students and taxpayers.

Leftwing media and organizations are fretting over U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s choice of Candice Jackson as acting assistant secretary for that department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), citing concerns about her views on affirmative action, feminism, and campus sexual assault policy.

Transgender lifestyles and same-sex relationships should be ‘promoted’ to children as young as two to reduce hate crime, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has said.

A new report finds that, under the guise of “personalized learning,” school-issued computer devices — now distributed to one-third of K-12 students in schools across the United States — are serving to collect and store an unprecedented amount of personal data on children without their parents’ notice or consent.